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In Scrum, challenges arise when we must perform evaluations. Scrum teams work together to complete the commitments they have made collectively for a sprint. Therefore, evaluating an individual becomes difficult.

After a recent training class, I realized that in conversations with ScrumMasters, they've talked about their coaching efforts with their development teams, but not about what they've done to support their product owner.

A number of techniques have proven useful for creative problem solving in an Agile environment, and the best are lightweight tools, quick and easy to implement, bearing low cost and high value. Here are my six favorites.

Organizations seeking to transform to Agile are faced with resistance from all sides, and it is not always apparent what is the best approach to engage in the transformation. I have been using a useful mechanism called Agile streams.